Shirt-button-locating attachment.



L. E. BURDICK. SHIRT BUTTON LOCATING ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 26. I912.

Patented Nov. 16, 1915.

2'SHEETSSHEET I- IFI INVENTEIFI A Tj UHNEY APPLICATION FILED DEC.26. I912.

Patented Nov. 16, 1915.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2- INVENTEIFi b LYMAN n. BUBDICK, or BERLIN, NiiwfYoaK.

sninr-isurrou-tocnrius ATTACHMENT,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 16, 1915.

V Application filed December 26, 1912. Serial No. 738,544.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, LYMAN E. Bunolon, a

. citizen of the United States, residing at Berin the several figures therein,

Figure 1 of the drawlngs is a plan view of a broken-away portion of a sewing-machine .table, and sewing-machine showing my improved. shirt'bLitton-locating-, attach-l ment applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a view in front elevation of the same; Fig. 3 is a View in perspective of the attachment ren'ioved from the table. Fig. l is a vertical crosssection of the attachment taken on the broken line inFio 3. Fig; 5 is a ver tical cross-section of the attachment taken on the broken line in Fig. 3. v

The principal. object of the invention is to facilitate attaching, by means of a sewingmachine, buttons to one flap of a shirtbosom in position to register accurately with buttonholes previously formed in the other bosom-flap. I

Referring to'the drawings wherein the invention is shown in preferred form, 1, is a sewing-machine table upon which is mounted a button-sewing machine having a bedplate, 2, a button chuclr, 3, and a needle, it.

I. have shown only the front portion of the machine, which may be of any known type adapted for the purpose.

My attachment comprises in part a plate, 5, attached to the table by means of standards, 6, in position to overlie the extreme front end of the bed-plate 2.

Upon the plate, 5, is mounted a slideplate, 7. provided with a longitudinal slot, 8, adapted to receive the shanks of a pair of posts, 9, which project upward from the plate, 5, and form guides for the plate, 7, in its longitudinal sliding movement.

The plate, 7, is shown as a built-up construction having at one end an L-shaped extension, 10, and at the other end. an L-shaped extension, 11, both extending rearwardly from the mayor the plate.

Theextension, 10, has a stud, 12, projecting upwardly therefrom adapted to en ter buttonholes in the respective front ends ofthe neckband of a shirt, and the endeartension, 11, is formed with a slideway, 18, in which is, movably mounted a slide, 14 having upwardly projecting spurs, 15, upon which the body-portion or skirt of a shirt can be impaled. draw the slide, 14:, away from the stud 12. The attachment is mounted upon the sewing-machine table with the plates, 5 and 7, parallel with thefront edge of the table and A coil-spring,16, tends to 'ust in front of theabutton-chuclr 3 and with V the stud, 12, andslide, 1%, substantially in line with the needle, 4;, on opposite sides thereof. i

Atabout the middle of the plate, 5, I have shown fixed thereupon a pair of rearw-a-rdly extending arms. 17 and18, upon one of which, 17, is adjustably mounted a gage, 19, cut away at, 20, to receive the button-chuck, 3; the adjustment of the gage being accomplished by means of a screw, 21, inserted through a slot in the shank of the gage into the arm 17. i The work-engaging surfaces on the gage, 19, are located in rear of the needle a distance corresponding with the desired.

distance from the edge of the bosom-flap to the center .of the several buttons.

The plate, 7, has an upturned end, 22, forming a handle whereby the plate can he slid along the posts 9.

The manner in which the device is used is as follows The buttonholes in the neckband and front 'of the shirt having been formed, the buttonholed flap, 23, of the bosom is inverted upon the bosom-flap, 9A, to which the buttons are to be attached; and in this position, the two bosomflaps are placed upon the plate, 7, and the stud, 12, is inserted through the buttonholes in the respective front ends of the neckband 25. The under member of the shirt-front, which is the one to which the buttons are to be attached, is then stretched by hand and impaled upon the pins, 15, with the edge of its bosom-portion against the gage 19. The 7 2 r Y 1 I I 1,160,492

ber brought .directlybeneath the needle,

4. in which position the plate, 7,'is held while the upper buttonholed bosom member is drawn back as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1, and the button is stitched to the under bosom-member in the usual manner by means'of the sewing-machine. After a butlocated so that they will register properly tions of the buttonholes with the respective buttonholes, and the labor and inaccuracy, of marking the posi upon the shirt bosom are avoided.

The arms, 17 and 18, are preferably located below the'level of the plate, 5, being adapted to embrace between them the bed of the machine u pon which the-body of the plate, 5, rests: V Y

Thetstandards, 6,.are' shown 'capable'of vertical adjustment, whereby the attach ment can be applied to machines at d'iiferent heights from the table.

lVhile my attachment is particularly adapted for locating the buttons on shirts, it isadaptedfor locatingin a similar manner the buttons on other garments in proper relation-lto the respective buttonholeswhich they areto engage.

For certain purposes of the invention the V plate, 7, may be ,slidably mounted in any 40 known manner in proper relationship to the sen-ungmaohine What I claim as new and desire to secure 7 by Letters Patent is 1 j '1. A button-locating attachment for-but ton 4 sewing machines comprising a slide plate which supports the fabric uponits upper: face having atone end anupwardly T projecting buttonhole-engaging member and at its other end a fabric-engaging member and provided with means whereby it is --adapted to be mounted in longitudinal rela tion to a button-sewing machine. H 2. A button-locating attachment for button sewmg machines comprising a slideplate which'supports the fabric upon its upper face havingat one end an upwardly projecting stud and at theother end an upwardly projecting spur, andmeans whereby,

said slide-plate is adapted to be mounted in longitudinally slidable relation to a sewingmachine with said stud and said spur on op posite sides of the sewing-machine needle. 3. A button-locating attachment for button sewing machines comprising a slideplate which supports the fabric upon its upperface having at one end an upwardly pro ecting buttonhole-engaging member, a

member yieldingly mounted at the other end of said slide-plate, an upwardly projecting spur carried by said yieldingly mounted member, and means whereby saidslide-plate is adapted to be mounted in longitudinally slidable relation to a sewing-machine with said spur and said buttonhole-engaging member on opposite sides of the sewing machine needle;

4. A button-locating attachment for button-sewing machines comprising a supportingplate, a fabric-gage mounted upon said plate, a slide-plate which supports the fab? ric upon its upperface having. at one end an upwardly projecting buttonhole-engag+ ing member and at its other end a fabric engaging member, said slide-plate being mounted upon said supporting-plate with capabilityfor longitudinal slide movement, and means for mounting said supportingplate in fixed relation to abuttonsewing machine. r

In testimony whereofllhay'e hereunto set my hand this 23rd day otDecember, 1912..-

LYMAN BURDICK.

Witnesses: V

7 Byron HULL,

Whirled, Gowns.

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' i i Washington, 310. 

